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Well, today was different to say the least. I started to pick out my classes for the next quarter this morning. I got a rough schedule put together before I headed out for school. I am lucky enough to have yet another quarter of driving to UCI everyday of the week. Once again I’m only able to take three classes and then everything else causes a conflict. It’s like UCI purposefully punishes transfer students and slows them down to make more money off of them. I was able to schedule in 18 units across 6 classes at Saddleback and IVC without any trouble. Whatever…so, I’m driving to UCI and I get a phone call from an unrecognized number. Normally I let them go to voicemail, but I had some time to kill and nothing going on for the day so I answered. It turned out to be Arbitech. I had interviewed for a part time position there about three weeks ago. I never heard back after the second interview and had by now presumed the position to be filled. I have my application in at Starbucks right now as my fall back. So, it turns out that Arbitech wants me back for a 3rd and final interview to meet the COO. I was a bit dazed over the whole thing figuring this job to be long gone. So, I’m set to go in tomorrow morning at 10am. I start pondering the schedule I created for the next quarter and it hits me that I have absolutely zero work time in this schedule. I have 7 separate classes in all for the next quarter. I haven’t quite figured out what I’m going to do. UCI doesn’t offer any evening courses, and every class is offered once, twice if it’s a really popular class. I was quite upset about this and contacted the deans office to find out why a school that’s making a couple million every three months not to mention state funding can’t offer some of their courses in the evening or at least twice a day. I left a message. I went through the rest of my day, I eventually got a voice mail from the deans secretary stating that I probably wanted to talk to Student Affairs. I’m not sure what to do on that front for the moment. They’re not going to listen to me anyway. I had planned on discussing the problem of non-English speaking math teachers and UCI’s un-flexible schedule. I doubt anyone else has complained. Everyone on campus doesn’t question anything, they’re just there and accept it for what it is. It baffles my mind to see all these people so worried about getting straight A’s on their report cards so that their parents don’t  kill them. They don’t turn out to be human by the time they’re done. After class I was driving home, and completely forgot a job I had to do, my mind was just racing over all the different things that had happened. Needless to say that customer was a bit angry, I’ve rescheduled for tomorrow morning at 9AM, it better be quick. I’m not running late for that last interview. I don’t need their patronage if I get this job.

I have soooooo much stuff to do, and yet I can’t seem to muster an ounce of energy to do any of it. I need to code a prototype for tomorrow as a proof of concept and I can’t seem to focus my mind on anything. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’ve been like this for the last few days. I just don’t want to do anything. It’s horrible. I’m wasting a lot of time that I don’t have to waste. I could just sit here and write for hours about seemingly meaningless subjects. Why is it so hard to focus? Perhaps I will try rewarding myself for coding. As I make progress on my code I will write some more on my blog. We’ll see if that works.